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What's New?
In this issue:
- Community college
faculty and students begin organizing against budget cuts
- District
offers zero, wants to roll back faculty rights
- Administrators’ pay rose 11 - 16%
in last two years, faculty lag far behind
- Resource Allocation Model appears to favor District Office
- CSM community organizes vigil to “save education”
- Skyline “Concerned Faculty” challenge budget cut strategy
- Part Time Faculty Group joins AFT
- Your personal information on Websmart may be
vulnerable
In this issue:
-
President’s Letter: Budget situation is worse than a Halloween horror movie
- Is there a
better way to reduce the budget? – Consider structural reorganization & centralization
- District part-time faculty group
proposes new social contract
- Know your rights in evaluation procedures
- Letter: Community colleges’ transfer function
needs support
- A part-timer’s view on the state budget and our colleges
- Retirees’ group planning two end-of-year events
- We need to
fight for
In this issue:
-
AFT opens contract negotiations with District: COLA and parity needed in tough economic times
- Key goal for
negotiations: binding arbitration
- President’s Letter: What are reasonable goals for faculty in an economic crisis?
- AFT to hold budget forums at all three colleges
- No Trust Committee; no
revising of faculty evaluation procedures
In this issue:
- Board overrules arbitrator’s
decision! – breaks 25-year promise
and exposes essential need for binding arbitration
- Who cares about binding arbitration? – Why the Board’s decision impacts all
faculty
- President’s Letter: Working on better AFT-faculty communications
- Fighting words at 2009 CFT Convention
- Finding a “lesson” at the CFT Convention
- Many valuable ways the Union and Academic Senate collaborate
- Results of the AFT 1493 Communication Survey: Faculty give thumbs up to The Advocate and E-News, say AFT 1493 website needs work
- CFT opposes all May 19 election propositions except 1B
- Faculty input needed for new contract negotiations
The
Advocate - March-April 2009
In this issue:
- Arbitrator reinstates probationary
faculty member with back pay
- The committee to revise the faculty evaluation process has still not been OK’ed by the District
- Compressed Calendar Task Force update
- President’s Letter: Comparing rights of faculty in California with the rest
of the nation
- Flex days, flex time: faculty’s rights and responsibilities
- Cal-PASS: High school, college and university faculty share issues in common
disciplines
- Conference focuses on how to defend public workers and social services amidst
the economic crisis in California
- Trustee responds to Advocate letter on administrators’ pay
In this issue:
Faculty rights to free political
speech must be protected
Retirement incentives not as popular among faculty as for administrators &
classified staff
Come out!
How will reductions in full-time faculty affect the rest of us?
Lezlee Ware is new Cañada College Chapter Co-Chair
CFT and state Academic Senate oppose requiring the use of SLOs
in faculty evaluations
Documents on SLOs and Accreditation
Accreditation Standard III.A.1.c of
the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC.) mandates
that student learning outcomes (SLOs) be a component
of faculty evaluation. This standard has recently been challenged by the
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges in a resolution at the Fall 2008 Plenary and by the California Federation of
Teachers (CFT) in an exchange of letters between the CFT and the ACCJC. Read the full text of the Senate resolution
and the CFT and ACCJC letters here.
The Advocate – December 2008
In this issue:
Concerns raised
about faculty’s and students’ rights to free political expression on campus
District email on “Posting of
Information”
Legal basis for faculty’s right to
free political expression
President’s Letter: The effects of a
strong labor movement
CFT and AFT scholarships available
District retirees to meet on December 12
The Advocate – November 2008
In this issue:
CFT calls on ACCJC to amend
accreditation mandate linking SLOs to faculty
evaluation
Faculty ratify new contract language
Faculty support adding new flex days
to 2009-2010 academic calendar
Online
instructors discuss concerns about teaching online
Compressed
calendar task force moves forward
CFT
recommendations for state ballot propositions
Tentative Contract Agreement,
September 2008:
Article 19: Part-Time Employment
Article 17: Grievance Procedure
MOU: Distance Education
The Advocate – September 2008
In this issue:
· AFT &
District reach tentative settlement on “re-openers”
· New AFT
1493 President is your “representative”
· New AFT 1493 grievance officers ready to deal with faculty problems
· Katie
Schertle takes over as Cañada College Chapter Chair
· AFT throws
big retirement party for John Kirk
·
“Who are the workers?” – a poem by
The Advocate – May 2008
In this issue:
April 21 rallies launch state budget
battle
Negotiations with District
proceeding slowly
President’s letter: End of an era
AFT 1493ers report on CFT convention
AFT 1493 wins
CFT communications awards
Results of faculty survey on Spring
Break
All faculty
invited to John Kirk’s retirement party on June 6
AFT Local 1493 Survey: Spring Break
Week calendar
Select your preference
for which week to schedule our District’s Spring Break in the future. The
choices are: the week before Easter, the week after Easter, or the week closest
to the middle of the Spring semester. If you have a
different choice, you may select “Other” and describe your alternative
preference. Please complete this survey no later than next Friday, April 18 and
please only take the survey once.
AFT 1493: 2008 Contract Proposals
AFT Local 1493’s
initial contract proposals to the SMCCCD for the 2008 negotiations.
Since these are contract re-openers, only non-economic items are proposed.
The Advocate – April 2008
In this issue:
Close loopholes, not schools!
AFT & District open negotiations
on non-economic reopeners
Mid-year update on the concurrent
enrollment MOU
In memorium:
Pamela D. Ward-Smith
Grievance report: Three tenure
committees vote not to renew faculty contracts
AFT 1493 elections to be held in
April
New Higher Education bill may
restrict SLO requirements
The Advocate – March 2008
In this issue:
Fair tax policies needed to solve
state budget crisis
Proposition 92 loses, but
legislative reforms may be possible
State salary survey shows our faculty also need raises
AFT calls for reconstituting the
Trust Committee
The politics of SLO’s
from Bush to SMCCCD
The Advocate –
December 2007
In this issue:
Faculty support needed now to pass Proposition
92 on February 5
AFT and District to begin
negotiations on contract “reopeners”
District distance education policies
being developed
Faculty leaders discuss use of SLO’s in faculty evaluations
AFT to call for reconstituting Trust
Committee
CFT scholarships available
The Advocate – November 2007
In this issue:
In AFT 1493’s survey on the 2008-09
academic calendar, faculty overwhelmingly favored the later start date
and also supported adding an additional flex day in the Spring 2009
semester
Faculty alert: Accreditation teams tell colleges
to use SLO’s in evaluation, but the union contract
prohibits it
CSM departments oppose new
concurrent enrollment plan
Administration’s unilateral “clean-up” of evaluation
documents leads to questions of reconstituting the Trust Committee
In memoriam: Edgar H. Andrews,
founding President of AFT 1493
Corporatization in public higher
education
California Community College
Initiative—Proposition 92 on the February ballot—is critical for community
college funding
The Advocate – October 2007
In this issue: New concurrent
enrollment proposal to be reviewed by departments; CSM faculty member urges
opposition to new concurrent enrollment plan; New state budget agreement sets
new faculty pay rates; California Community College Initiative begins campaign
for February election; District ethical behavior policy proposed; more
The Advocate – May 2007
In this issue: Budget cuts at CSM
and Skyline; Concurrent enrollment update; California Community College
Initiative qualifies for 2008 ballot;All faculty
encouraged to attend AFT negotiations workshop on May 7; Caada
faculty want District to take new look at compressed calendar
In this issue: AFT 1493 fights
for faculty on issues of part time office hour pay, concurrent enrollment and
online education; Chancellor agrees to restore CSM adjunct librarians’
contracts, but then doesn’t do what he promises to do; California community
college initiative campaign submits signatures; Professional Development
Committees need clearer data from the District; Viewpoint: “Allstate
management” furthers faculty deprofessionalization;
AFT 1493 member logs her experiences at her first CFT Convention; AFT 1493 wins
four statewide communications awards; faculty input is needed on AFT 1493
negotiations survey at: http://aft1493.org/surveys.html
The Advocate – March 2007
In this issue:
Under-prepared students create conditions for “
AFT 1493
2007-08 NEGOTIATIONS SURVEY
The current
contract between the AFT and the District states “For the 2007 – 2008 and 2008
– 2009 contract years, each party can re-open up to three non-economic items in
any article excluding Articles 8 and 9.” The AFT negotiations team is preparing
to negotiate with the District the three re-openers for next year. One of your
privileges as a member of AFT Local 1493 is to help us set priorities and
directions on the negotiations process by giving us your input on what issues
concern you the most. In order to help us develop new contract proposals,
please complete our negotiations survey by clicking on the link above.
California Community
College Initiative:
Summary; Impact
on SMCCD , More
information
New contract ratified by faculty (95% yes vote) on
9/6-7/06 & approved by the Board of Trustees on 9/11/06
New Salary
Schedules are now accessible from: AFT 1493’s Contract Info page
E-News – September 15, 2006
Retroactive pay
checks; part-time salary schedules; health concerns at CSM and Skyline;
paper or electronic versions of the contract? deadline to reserve your Teatro Campesino tickets
E-News – September 11, 2006
Contract
ratification results, update on Skyline health & safety & announcement
of AFT 1493 special event for faculty
E-News – August 18, 2006
Announcement and
brief summary of tentative contract agreement
Tentative Contract
Agreement between AFT Local 1493 and SMCCD - Aug. 15, 2006
E-News – July 12, 2006
Brief update on our
negotiations with the District and on the State budget
E-News – June 13, 2006
Brief update on
negotiations between AFT 1493 and the District & the results of the
recently-concluded AFT 1493 election of officers, Executive Committee members
and delegates for the 2006 – 2008 term of office.
E-News – May 12, 2006
Brief end-of-the-semester update on what is happening in the current round of
contract negotiations.
AFT 1493’s response to the suggestion of employing a
professional negotiator
AFT 1493 Executive
Committee’s response to faculty members’ letter calling for the use of a
professional negotiator
AFT
Contract Alert, 4-28-06
Negotiations
update. Please give us your feedback.
The Advocate - March-April 2006
In this issue: Ballot initiative means billions
more for
Part timers’ seniority rights under attack by District; AFT & Senates do
not support District’s proposed mutual respect policy
The
Advocate - December 2005
In this issue: AFT & District
begin negotiating on this year’s contract re-openers; More funding needed for
sabbatical program;
A modest proposal for a reduced course load; An analysis of the November
special election results
Articles on California Community Colleges
(regularly updated from
newspapers around the state)
Results of
Vote on Dues Restructuring Proposal
Proposal passed with
73% of faculty voting YES; Complete
details
The
Advocate – October 2005
In this issue: AFT 1493
recommendations for the Nov. 8 special election (“Nix the First Six, Yes on the
Rest!”), Administration’s enrollment strategy backfires, Enforcing the maximum
size of your classes, Flaws in the District’s proposed Mutual Respect Policy,
& statements from AFT-endorsed Board candidates, Helen Hausman &
Richard Holober
AFT 1493 Dues Restructuring Proposal
Letter to faculty
presenting “a proposal for a sustainable and equitable restructuring of our
The
Advocate – September 2005
In this issue: Public education on the
line in Nov. 8 state special election; fight continues for pay for part-timers'
office hours; District supports nursing students rather than CSM instructor
AFT 1493
2005-06 Work Plan Goals
developed by the
AFT 1493 Executive Committee at a special meeting on April 12, 2005
New certificated salary schedules:
full-time; part-time; overload; post-retirement
"Student
Learning Outcomes": Links to Recommended Sources
NEW CONTRACT, March 2005
Faculty voted
overwhelmingly to ratify the new contract on April 20 and April 21, 2005
and the Board of Trustees approved the contract on April 27,2005.
E-News
– March 17, 2005
Tentative
Contract Settlement plus Arnold's assault on education & unions, HR 147
& scholarship deadlines
The
Advocate - February 2005
In this issue: The governor's attack
one education; a case study of faculty's rising health costs; the "Triple
Flip"; & much more
E-News
-January 26, 2005
AFT 1493's
e-mail newsletter provides a brief update on contract negotiations, an overview
of the governor’s budget proposals & more
SMCCCD Sabbatical
Application & Information
CalPERS 2005 Health Plan Rates
Beginning January
1, 2005, CalPERS has implemented new "regional pricing" of monthly premiums for
members of contracting public agencies and school members. This "regional pricing" increases Bay Area rates
substantially-- up almost 24% for Blue Shield (to $1013) & up over 16% (to
$922) for Kaiser (specific amounts for all plans are listed at the above link.)
The 2004 cap in medical benefits paid by the District is $567 per month.
Negotiations between AFT 1493 & the District are currently taking
place to establish the cap for 2005.
E-Mail
Newsletter - August 20, 2004
E-Mail
Newsletter - May 20, 2004
AFT
1493 2004-07 Contract Proposals
last updated: 12-3-09